Thanks to Don Heuer, another Lobbyist for Citizens, for providing us with an email received from Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College…..

Dear Don,

I hope your day is going well. You understand, as do I, that the process of educating begins when children are very young. The capacity to know, think, feel, and act is not fully formed in small children, therefore we must be careful to shape it for our children to develop into responsible adults.

As it has since 1844, Hillsdale teaches college-level students using a rigorous classical liberal arts education at our main campus in Michigan. However, as part of our mission to preserve the blessings of liberty nationwide, we offer resources to K-12 schools, especially charter schools, who pursue the same rigorous, classical education.

That’s why Hillsdale launched the Barney Charter School Initiative—an undertaking that is crucial to the future of our nation. To be successful, public education in America must be built on a foundation of classical liberal arts learning—the kind of learning best suited to a free society and most needed for its preservation. This kind of education used to be common in America, but in recent decades has been replaced with the current, failing Progressive model of education.

Hillsdale’s Barney Charter School Initiative aims to reverse this trend by the founding of classical charter schools, aiming to launch 50 schools by 2020. The curriculum emphasizes the core disciplines of math, science, history, and language arts, followed by attention to music, art, and foreign languages. These classical K-12 schools focus on essential skills and knowledge, employ traditional teaching methods, and understand the importance of history and civics.

This initiative is one of the best ways to invest in our nation’s future—and it is up to Americans like us who understand the importance of education, to take the lead in returning excellence to our public K-12 schools—for the sake of our children and grandchildren—and for our nation.

We are available to speak on the issue.

If you know of any group that wants to hear our presentation “Losing the American Dream….One Tax Levy at a Time”, please let us know and we can schedule a date and time.

If we continue on our current path of ever escalating real estate taxes, we will price seniors and others living on fixed incomes out of their homes they worked all their lives to achieve.

Is the American Dream dead?

After a great deal of research, we are firmly convinced that unless something is done about the unconstitutional use of real estate taxes to pay for public schools, many taxpayers will be driven out of their homes.

The government’s public school financing model is simply not sustainable.

We see lobbyists for every special interest group, but none for the average taxpayers. We hope citizens start to speak up before they decide that they need to move out of their home.

The State of Ohio has balanced their budget on the backs of local taxpayers, and the choices of where to live with affordable property taxes are becoming difficult to find.

Lake County residents — please wake up, and start speaking out and fight for yourselves. Do not be complacent, and accepting this fate.